Canvas brings layered raster drawing and image composition into Visual Space. This first release establishes the document workflow and an early editing toolkit that will grow over time.
Canvas brings layered raster drawing and image composition into Visual Space. This first release establishes the document workflow and an early editing toolkit that will grow over time.
Canvas Files
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Create in a space - Coordinators can name a new Canvas in an eligible space area and open it directly in a clean workspace.
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Browse by area - Users can find and reopen Canvas files alongside the work in their current space area. The Canvas guide covers finding, creating, and reopening these files.
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Connected opening - Canvas files opened from Docs or shared chat cards go straight to the Canvas editor.
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Linked discussion - Each Canvas includes a linked draft article and document-level comments without publishing a feed post automatically.
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Focused editing - The fullscreen workspace keeps tools close, then returns users to the file's owning area when they leave.
Layered Editing
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Flexible layers - Users can combine paint and fill, text and shapes, adjustments, placed images, and imported SVG artwork.
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Layer controls - Users can organize eligible layers, protect them with locks, and adjust visibility or appearance without changing the protected background.
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Layer appearance - Supported blend modes, opacity, fill opacity, thumbnails, and masks help users control how layers combine.
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Painting tools - Brush, Pencil, and Eraser support adjustable marks with detailed stroke, color, and pressure settings.
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Color workflows - Users can fill selections, add gradients, sample visible colors, and manage both swatches through a full color picker.
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Retouching tools - Clone Stamp, Blur, Sharpen, and Smudge provide first-pass correction tools for eligible paint layers.
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Selections and transforms - Users can draw rectangular selections, move or resize content, snap to useful targets, and adjust selection bounds.
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Clipboard and framing - Copy, cut, paste, duplicate, clear, and framing commands support common composition changes.
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Text and shapes - Users can add editable text, adjust typography, draw basic shapes, and convert finished text into paint content.
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Masks and effects - Rectangular reveal masks, filter previews, and adjustable grayscale layers support simple non-destructive experiments.
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SVG workflows - Users can import supported SVG artwork, recolor shapes, move anchor points, and save the editable SVG representation.
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Placed images - Users can choose an image from the space and position its placeholder layer while decoded image rendering remains unavailable.
Workspace Controls
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Tool-aware controls - The focused tool rail and changing options bar keep relevant controls available as users switch tasks.
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Pan and zoom - Users can navigate with the Hand and Zoom tools, pointer-centered zooming, fit view, and actual-pixel commands.
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View aids - Users can switch between three display modes and combine them with rulers, guides, grids, layer bounds, or snapping.
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Commands and shortcuts - Menus, keyboard shortcuts, and right-click actions expose available commands while keeping unfinished actions disabled.
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Adaptive panels - Artwork, text, context, and history panels adapt between desktop and compact layouts.
Saving And Teamwork
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Clear autosave - Canvas shows progress or recovery states while saving and protects pending changes before closing.
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Layered projects - Users can download and reopen editable .vscanvas projects with supported layers, masks, effects, colors, views, and history.
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Useful history - Undo and redo group brush, selection, movement, transform, and clipboard work into understandable local steps.
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Shared updates - People viewing the same Canvas receive its latest saved state after accepted edits.
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Meeting Canvas - Teams can open the same Canvas workspace during meetings and switch Canvas files from the live-app picker.
Current Limits
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Early raster foundation - Some brushes, filters, images, and effects still use editable previews instead of finished pixel output.
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Export limits - Users can save .vscanvas projects and supported SVG work, while PNG, JPEG, WebP, PSD, and per-layer exports remain unavailable.
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Advanced editing - Complex selections, brush-editable masks, full typography, decoded image compositing, and many professional filters remain unavailable.
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Saved collaboration - Canvas refreshes from saved document states instead of merging simultaneous brush strokes between collaborators.
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Local undo - Undo and redo apply only to the current editing session.
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